watts bar crappie report

sailfish, sailfish jr., and myself ventured to watts bar this morning to scout for some crappie. found some in creek channels just before the main river and brought 20 home to eat. they would only eat shad raps today 90' behind the boat or pushing with a 3oz. weight traveling at about 1.8mph. purple shad raps. no bandits takers today. we only had three of the purple shad raps and lost one to a brush pile and another to a 3' gar, and then the fight was on as to who got to use the last one. we lost several fish today because I had not changed the hooks on my shad raps. lesson learned. we quit around noon as it was getting hot and trolling motor batteries getting tired. very peaceful morning to be out. all fish caught were white crappie, no blacks. during some of the rod grabbing action this morning I mistakenly referred to sailfish as "chris". not quite sure if he took that as a compliment or not??????
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Great post and pix.

Darren, thanks so much for giving me a call last night, me and garrett had a blast today, it isnt often i go anywhere that you have the place to yourself, but that was the case today, not many people out there today. fun and fellowship, thanks again

Good looking mess of Crappie. Congrats on a fine fishing day.

Nice catch and pics. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for the report. nice catch.

Big old white crappie. Love the report and pics.

LOL I don't mind if he don't Darren. Looks like you had a good morning, Might as well just call us 1 or 2 we're usually together chasing them specks. thanks for the report and good pix. Tell the Sec/ treasurer hello!!! Take care

Some nice Watts Bar white crappie. Thanks for the report.